“I don’t know,” the Scholar answered sadly. He continued talking. “A terrible storm struck. The caravan was almost completely destroyed, but some lucky people, including me, managed to hide from it in a cave. Unfortunately, the exit out of the cave ended up completely blocked off, so we ventured deeper into it. We had been walking for almost a month and had run out of food and water, but then we stumbled upon a city.”
They walked through the cave’s tunnels for a month?! How deep was that cave?! And they found a city? Hadjar thought in astonishment.
“I won’t go into all the details, but I’ve managed to become the disciple of a great Scholar, a cultivator of the Lord Stage.”
“The Lord Stage?” Hadjar asked. “What’s that?”
“The Stag most Imperial cultivators can only dream of. The level th
